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In this issue we review one disorder whichbut maybe should—encephalitis lethargica and head injury respectively. Could encephalitis lethargica return with the widely predicted bird flu epidemic? Well it might, but then the epidemic may not materialise, and it may be that this strange neurological condition was nothing to do with "Spanish flu" in the first part of the 20th century. But, just in case (page 360), Joel Vilensky and Sid Gilman give us some tips on what to look out for, although who knows what we will also see on brain MR, if anything (in the epidemic days neurologists only had their bare hands and skull x rays, not even angiography or EEGs). As for head injuries it is indeed odd that neurologists in so many countries have nothing to do with them, unless perhaps epilepsy develops. In the UK, admitted patients are left to linger on orthopaedic and general . . . [Full text of this article]